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Some Aspects of Random Fragmentations in Continuous Times

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Fragmentation processes serve as stochastic models for a mass that falls apart randomly as time passes. The purpose of these notes is to provide an elementary survey of some recent results in this area.

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  1. Laboratoire de Probabilités et Modèles Aléatoires, Université Paris 6, France

    Jean Bertoin

  2. Institut universitaire de France, 175, rue du Chevaleret, F-75013, Paris, France

    Jean Bertoin

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  1. Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile

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Bertoin, J. (2004). Some Aspects of Random Fragmentations in Continuous Times. In: Maass, A., Martínez, S., Martín, J.S. (eds) Dynamics and Randomness II. Nonlinear Phenomena and Complex Systems, vol 10. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-2469-6_1

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